The thing I like about the web is, everybody has a voice ...... even if most voices are ignored ...... it's a great leveler.

Anyway, during one of my recent meanderings I found this post.

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You know when you wake up the morning after and think to yourself "I wish I hadn't said that"?

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Following up from my "hang the wanker" game I just thought I'd share some of the results. Out of the 1,500+ spam attempts I've received in the last 24 hours alone, one ip in particular was responsible for almost [b]80%[/b] of them and is the reason for this post. The ip in particular is [b]81.177.14.26[/b] and following a chat with Danny he found out that it was part of an ip block ( 81.177.14 / 81.177.15 ) for a russian host (no suprises there then).

From looking at the logs of various sites on a multitude of servers I was deeply dissapointed to discover that it wasn't me that was popular, this wanker hits every server we checked! So, the best advice I can give you is this. For those of you who run windows servers then I advise you hit IIS and ban the whole bloody lot of them ( you can find instructions here ). If you have a website hosted on a linux box then I'd advise that you add the following to your htaccess to stop this tit from wasting your bandwidth and cpu :-

order allow,deny
deny from 81.177.14.
deny from 81.177.15.
allow from all

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It's been a while since I last played with wankers ... I mean "spammers" .... they must be missing all the fun and games we used to have ....... so I decided to make up for it and play "hang the wanker". This novel little game starts by emptying your blacklist and then sitting back and just waiting for the contestants to arrive. Simple huh? The rules of the game are even simpler, there are none, after all it's pretty pointless having rules when you're playing games with someone who hasn't even got the basic intelligence to work out that people despise everything that they do.

Now, before you all go "ohhh this sounds like a cool game" and rush off to empty your own blacklists so that you can participate as well ..... DON'T :| ..... no, seriously don't .... unless you fancy deleting the thousands of spam that you'll receive because you didn't know the rules either!

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